BOOK REVIEWS
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What Grows Here? Favorite Plants for Better Yards
What is so user-friendly about this book is that it is written as a series of frequently-asked gardening questions, the perfect format for the gardener who likes to participate in a forum community.
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Gardening in Eden
Part memoir, part history, and part gardening tutorial, Arthur T. Vanderbilt's Gardening in Eden should delight passionate gardeners.
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
Sara Stein, already an accomplished author, wrote this book after realizing that her efforts at gardening, were in fact hurting her land and environment, not helping it, however unintentionally.
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McGee & Stuckey's: The Bountiful Container
Separated into three parts, the book can be read from beginning to end as easily as it can be utilized as a handy at-your-fingertips plant encyclopedia.
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Plants For A Future: Edible & Useful Plants For A Healthier World
The scope of this book is massive, with lofty environmental and practical
goals, which are surprisingly made entirely achievable by the simple
gardening methods presented in the introduction.
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urban EDEN
This book is a blessing to the urban gardener stuck in tight spaces with limited gardening resources.
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The Strangest Plants in the World
Not all plants can be tamed indoors or contained in a quaint little cottage garden. Some plants are so unusual and bizarre they should only belong in a greenhouse freak show.
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
Knowing your enemy is the first step in guarding against it effectively. As someone who aims to grow organically, I have yet to find a book that better provides me with the knowledge necessary to fight disease and pests in a safe, effective manner...
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
....author Diane Ackerman takes us on a journey through the life cycle of her garden. Not so much a garden diary as a year-long
Walden, the book brings us with Ackerman as she connects emotionally to each
season, each garden pest, each gardening process.
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Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary
How many times have you purchased a succulent whose only identification was a tag that said "cacti or succulent"? Or perhaps you were lucky enough to be informed of the genus or family name but little more?
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The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating
It is an incredibly comprehensive A-Z reference volume that covers the heath and nutritional benefits of just about anything edible.
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The Gardens of Kyoto
These are people you can imagine. These are people prior to the age of psychoanalysis.
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Night Gardening
This is a lovely little story about a romance between two mature people who love to garden.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
The author and various reviewers have claimed that this book shows how certain plants have exploited humans in order to become successful species.
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planted
This is the most exciting and contemporary gardening book available and really takes the concept of gardening where it needs to go. If you can afford one book about gardening this year, I highly recommend that planted be the one you get.
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The Sweet Breathing of Plants
This book is just like the You Grow Girl website. It's a delicious mix of the
informative and the poetic, the beautiful and the utilitarian.
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 SCIENCE FICTION
The Plants
If you happen to find this book in a second hand store and it only costs a few cents, and you need some bad science fiction to read while sitting on the toilet...
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The Edible Container Garden
This book is an idea mine. You can sit down and read it cover to cover,
moving freely among concepts of using vertical space, different ways of
watering and composting, weed control, container types, and ways of dealing
with "problem areas".
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Symbiotic Planet: a new view of evolution
If you are interested in symbiosis and its effect on evolution, this book may be the most entertaining, accessible and accurate one out there.
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The Autobiography of My Mother
This book is full of raw physicality and
the character's awareness of vegetation contributes to the visceral sense of
place the reader experiences.
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 FIELD GUIDE
Mohave Desert Wildflowers
This field guide has gorgeous pictures and short descriptions of many
commonly found flowers of the region.
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Gardens in the Dunes
What this book could have been: a turn of the century story about a Native
American girl named Indigo from the southwest (Sand Lizard people) who
subsistence gardened until she was rounded up and sent to boarding school.
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